Nidalee with Bard
How to Synergize Nidalee and Bard
based on 651 Nidalee with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nidalee Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Bard
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Bard
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Advice to Understand How Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Nidalee Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nidalee sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Nidalee perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee tries to synergize with Bard, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Bard supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Bard on the same team, she often takes more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Nidalee during team fights.
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nidalee that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Bard is a very typical ally for Nidalee. By locking into the same side as Nidalee, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 43.9%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Nidalee and Bard that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players need to be very careful when finding Bard allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Nidalee players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Nidalee and Bard together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much cover. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to pair well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Nidalee and Bard synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 43.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.9% win rate overall.
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